different between evident vs evidence

English

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French [Term?], from Latin ?vid?ns (“visible, apparent, clear, plain”) (compare Late Latin ?videor (“to appear plainly”)), from ? (“out”) + vide? (“see”), present participle vid?ns, deponent videor (“to appear, seem”). Displaced native Old English sweotol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.v?.d?nt/
• Hyphenation: ev?i?dent

Adjective

evident (comparative more evident, superlative most evident)

1. Obviously true by simple observation.

   It was evident she was angry, after she slammed the door.

Derived terms

• evidently
• inevident
• self-evident

Related terms

• evidence
• evidential

Translations

Further reading

• evident in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• evident in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin ?vid?ns.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?.vi?dent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?.bi?den/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /e.vi?dent/

Adjective

evident (masculine and feminine plural evidents)

1. obvious; evident

Derived terms

• evidentment

Related terms

• evidència

Further reading

• “evident” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

German

Etymology

From Latin ?vid?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [evi?d?nt]
• Hyphenation: evi?dent

Adjective

evident (comparative evidenter, superlative am evidentesten)

1. evident

Declension

Further reading

• “evident” in Duden online

Middle French

Adjective

evident m (feminine singular evidente, masculine plural evidents, feminine plural evidentes)

1. obvious; evident

Descendants

• French: évident

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin ?vid?ns.

Pronunciation

Adjective

evident m (feminine singular evidenta, masculine plural evidents, feminine plural evidentas)

1. evident

Derived terms

• evidentament

Related terms

• evidéncia

Romanian

Etymology

From French évident, from Latin evidens.

Adjective

evident m or n (feminine singular evident?, masculine plural eviden?i, feminine and neuter plural evidente)

1. obvious

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English evidence, from Old French [Term?], from Latin evidentia (“clearness, in Late Latin a proof”), from evidens (“clear, evident”); see evident.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??v?d?ns/, /??v?d?ns/
• (US) IPA^(key): [??v???ns]
• Hyphenation: ev?i?dence

Noun

evidence (usually uncountable, plural evidences)

1. Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
   • 1748, David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

     In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

2. (law) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.
3. One who bears witness.
   • 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 53:

     He recapitulated the Sybil’s story word by word, with the air of a man who is cross-examining an evidence, and trying to make him contradict himself.

4. A body of objectively verifiable facts that are positively indicative of, and/or exclusively concordant with, that one conclusion over any other.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often used with the term "evidence": documentary, physical, empirical, scientific, material, circumstantial, anectodal, objective, strong, weak, conclusive, hard

Derived terms

Related terms

• evident
• evidential

Translations

Verb

evidence (third-person singular simple present evidences, present participle evidencing, simple past and past participle evidenced)

1. (transitive) To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.

Usage notes

• To be distinguished from evince.

Translations

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:evidence.

Further reading

• evidence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• evidence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??v?d?nt?s?]
• Rhymes: -?nts?

Noun

evidence f

1. records
2. registry, repository

Related terms

• See vize
• eviden?ní
• evidovat
• evidentní

See also

• záznamy
• databáze
• registr

Further reading

• evidence in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• evidence in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Friulian

Noun

evidence f (plural evidencis)

1. evidence

Middle French

Noun

evidence f (plural evidences)

1. evidence

Descendants

• French: évidence